Brickner was born in Manhattan on May 14, 1933. He attended
Middlebury College from 1951 to 1953, when a traffic accident left him paralyzed. He resumed his education at
Columbia University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1957. Brickner's first novel,
The Broken Year (1962), was a fictional account of his injury, and was adapted as an episode of
Alcoa Premiere. Brickner was also an editor of
Doubleday, taught at the
New School for Social Research and at
City College of New York, and a contributor to
The New York Review of Books. He also received a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Brickner died at 72 on May 12, 2006, in
Manhattan. == References ==